Design For How People Learn

Question 1

Knowledge gap and skills gap

Answer 1

sometimes a learners main gap is knowledge but more frequently knowledge and information are just the supplies the learner needs to develop skills

Question 2

Motivation and sucess

Answer 2

You need to consider the motivations and attitudes of your learners. If they know how to do something, are there other reasons they aren’t succeeding?

Question 3

New learners and experienced learners

Answer 3

Provide more structure for your new learners and more resources and autonomy for your experienced learners

Question 4

Define a problem

Answer 4

Define the problem before coming up with solutions, to ensure you are actually solving the real problem and not a problem you don’t have

Question 5

Long term memory

Answer 5

People hold items in working memory only as long as they need them for some purpose. once that purpose is satisfied they frequently forget the items. ask your learners to do something with the information causes them to retain it longer and increases the likelihood that that information would be included into long-term memory

Question 6

Maintain learner’s attention

Answer 6

If you want to get and maintain your learners attention you need to talk to the emotional visceral brain as well as the conscious verbal brain

Question 7

Friction

Answer 7

Some friction is necessary in learning. just telling them is to smooth and won’t stick. learners frequently need to engage with the materials to retain it

Question 8

Prior knowledge

Answer 8

Use strategies like recall of prior knowledge and metacognition to help support memory encoding and retrieval

Question 9

Effective learning experience

Answer 9

You can use CCAF (context, challenge, activity and feedback) to design effective learning experiences

Question 10

A successful leaning experience

Answer 10

A successful leaning experience doesn’t just involve a learner knowing more. It’s about them being able to do more with that knowledge